Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?
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The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!
